Overview & Salary

Overview

Facilitate negotiation and conflict resolution through dialogue. Resolve conflicts outside of the court system by mutual consent of parties involved.

On the job, you would:

  • Prepare written opinions or decisions regarding cases.
  • Apply relevant laws, regulations, policies, or precedents to reach conclusions.
  • Conduct hearings to obtain information or evidence relative to disposition of claims.

Education

  • professional degree
  • bachelor's degree

Salary

Annual 10th percentile $35,960
Annual median $71,540
Annual 90th percentile $152,730

Knowledge & Skills

Knowledge

Arts and Humanities

  • English language

Safety and Government

  • law and government

Business

  • human resources (HR)

Math and Science

  • psychology

Skills

Basic Skills

  • listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
  • talking to others

Problem Solving

  • noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it

Social

  • bringing people together to solve differences
  • talking people into changing their minds or their behavior

Personality & Abilities

Personality

Enterprising

People interested in this work like activities that include leading, making decisions, and business.

  • Analytical Thinking
  • Self Control
  • Integrity
  • Independence
  • Stress Tolerance
  • Attention to Detail

Abilities

Verbal

  • communicate by speaking
  • communicate by writing

Ideas and Logic

  • make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
  • use rules to solve problems
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